Associated american artists

Founded in 1934 in New York City during the Depression era, its purpose was to make fine art available to the ???masses???---people who could not afford originals. Working with the AAA, executives of 50 department stores agreed to display and sell for five dollars each prints of artist members, who included Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, Luigi Lucioni, Grant Wood, Raphael Soyer, Reginald Marsh, Isabel Bishop and Adolf Dehn. By the mid 1900s, the Association had expanded in scope to fabric design and a line of pottery called Stonelain. Involved as potters were Gwen Lux, Joseph Hirsh, William Solni and Frances Server. Sources: www.loc.gov/exhibits/goldstein/goldamer.htm; www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.asp?view=927; www.textilesociety.org/abstracts_2002/Herbaugh.htm; http://www.sindelarandobrien.com/stonelain_birds/stonelain_birds.htm